Comskip Support Forum

Hello,

I'm calling comskip.exe with an async process. I have seen other GUIs (ie mpeg2dvrmsgui.exe) display on their screen the progress in percent as the comskip.exe is running. How do I get that value? vb.net code below...

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Dim identifyCommercialProcess As Process = New Process()
Dim dtStart As DateTime
Dim currentDestFileSize As Double = 0

identifyCommercialProcess.EnableRaisingEvents = True
Process.GetCurrentProcess().PriorityClass = ProcessPriorityClass.BelowNormal
identifyCommercialProcess.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = GetSubKeyValue(MSTRMAINKEYNAME, MSTRSUBKEYWORKINGDIR) & "\comskip"
identifyCommercialProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "comskip.exe"
identifyCommercialProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = Chr(34) & strFilename & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34)
identifyCommercialProcess.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
identifyCommercialProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True

dtStart = Now
identifyCommercialProcess.Start()

pgrbarProcessFiles.Value = 0

While identifyCommercialProcess.Responding And identifyCommercialProcess.HasExited = False
lblFileConverting.Text = "Identifying commercials - " & vbCrLf & getFileNameOnly(strFilename)
Application.DoEvents()
End While
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thank you!

Comskip writes progress to stderr.
Redirect the stderr output (output stream number 2) to a file and you can read the progress from the file being created

Excellent. Thankyou for responding.

Sorry to reopen this...

I was able to pull back both standarderror and standardoutput streams. standardoutput had information in it (same info i see when running in cmd prompt window). Standarderror never has information in it and is never raised. What I am looking for is a progress indicator, ie 1%...2%...3%...

Is it possible?

Thank you!

When you run comskip by dragging and dropping a recording onto the comskip.exe you will see the progress output being written.
It is possible , not sure, you may have to set
verbose=1

Not suprisingly there was a bug on my end. I see the progress now. thank you again!

Hi, it's me again, sorry.

Got it reporting back to me, but every file seems to stop at a certain percentage. It will stay at say 86% or 94% for 5mins at least. Comskip.exe still in task manager with memory fluctuating but CPU usage=0%. What is going on at this point? I have yet to have a file reach all the way to 100%. After this long pause however the dvrcut.bat generates successfully and everything seems fine. Just wondering what this random hang and not going all the way to 100% is all about?

thanks!

look in the comskip documentation for "standoff" and live_tv_retries

No luck...

in comskip.ini I tried the following based on the support docs:

standoff=8000000
live_tv_retries=300 and 16

dvr-ms comskip status stuck at 93%

standoff=120000
live_tv_retries=300 and 16

dvr-ms comskip status stuck at 93%

When processing live tv comskip needs to wait till the file does no longer grow for some time as dvr-ms files are extended before being filled with video.
If you do not use live tv processing you can set
live_tv_retries=0
and comskip will not wait.

Worked a charm! Thanks so much!